Real leadership and the U.S. Army : overcoming a failure of imagination to conduct adaptive work /

This monograph begins with a case study that provides a means for analyzing the complexity of organizational leadership in the contemporary security environment. As such, it presents a high stakes problem-set that required an operational adaptation by a cavalry squadron conducting combat operations in Baghdad. This problematic reality triggered the struggle to find a creative response to a very deadly problem, while cultural norms served as barriers that prevented the rejection of previously accepted solutions that had proven successful in the past, even though those successful solutions no longer fit in the context of the reality of the present. The case study highlights leaders who were constrained by deeply-held assumptions that inhibited their ability to adapt quickly to a changed environment. The case study then moves on to provide an example of a successful application of adaptive leadership and adaptive work that was performed by the organization after a period of reflection and the willingness to experiment and assume risk. The case study serves as a microcosm of the challenges facing the U.S. Army, and the corresponding leadership framework presented in this monograph can be used as a model for the Army as it attempts to move forward in its effort to make adaptation an institutional imperative. The paper presents a more holistic approach to leadership where the leader transcends that of simply being an authority figure and becomes a real leader who provides a safe and creative learning environment where the organization can tackle and solve adaptive challenges. The paper concludes by recommending that U.S. Army leaders apply Harvard Professor Dean Williams's theory to the challenges confronting the Army's leader development process thereby fostering a culture of adaptive leaders.

Redefining homeland security /

"... the Army War College (USAWC) and the Reserve Officers Association (ROA) hosted...."

Transformation for what? /

One of the most significant of global security reassessments is currently underway, driven by Operations IRAQI FREEDOM and Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, continuing technological developments, budget constraints, and the debate associated with the 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review. To provide senior defense leaders with ideas on security transformation, the Strategic Studies Institute has joined with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government to bring together top experts on an annual basis. For the third meeting in this series--held in November 2004--the National Defense University joined as a partner. The informed and free flowing debate at this conference generated a range of frank assessments and creative ideas about the status of security transformation. This report summarizes the debates and findings of the November session.

The step-mother, a tragedy.

Mode of access: Internet.

La Moine River basin study : a comprehensive plan for water resource development /

Bibliography: p. 57-59.

An inaugural address, delivered before the directors of the Theological Seminary of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, by S. S. Schmucker, A.M. at his induction into the Professorship of Christian Theology, September 5, 1826.

Green printed paper cover has title: "Inaugural address of Professor Schmucker."

Nine discourses on baptism : viz. water baptism, John's baptism, Christian baptism, believer's baptism, infant baptism, believing parents and their children in covenant with God, being buried with Christ in baptism illustrated : to which is annexed, Mrs. Jackson's confession.

The first sermon is compiled from sermons by Nathan Perkins and Moses Hemmenway; the other sermons are by John Crane, Jedidiah Chapman, and Elijah Parish.

Spiritual life, or, Regeneration : illustrated in a series of disquisitions : relative to its author, subject, nature, means, etc. /

Mode of access: Internet.

Sermons,

Mode of access: Internet.

Olam haneshamoth : or, a view of the intermediate state, as it appears in the records of the Old and New Testament, the Apocraphal [sic] books, in heathen authors, and the Greek and Latin fathers, with notes /

Mode of access: Internet.

A collection of choice sermons /

"Published by Rev. Charles Helfenstein."

The genuine works of Flavius Josephus.

Index, [62] p. at end of v. 6.

The history and antiquities of the county palatine of Durham.

Errors in paging, v. 3: 337-344 repeated in numbering.

The character of a priest /

Attributed to Richard Carlisle. Cf. NUC pre-1956.

Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New continent, during the years 1799-1804.

A reprint (all issued) of Books 1-2 of the London edition of 1814-26, in 7 volumes. French edition, Paris, 1814-25, appeared under title: Voyage aux régions equinoxiales du Nouveau continent.